Beer Man: Into the Woods packs a lot of flavor into brown ale

3:52 PM,
Feb. 4, 2014

Into the Woods is brewed
by New Holland Brewing Co. in Holland, Mich. It is 6.5 percent alcohol by volume.

Written by

Todd Haefer
Gannett

Once again, our winter weather here in Wisconsin has dipped into minus double digits -- this time 20 below zero, not including the wind chill -- and it's days like this that make me appreciate beers such as New Holland's Into the Woods even more.

The label simply describes it as a brown ale, but that is like calling a Porsche "just a car." This is a special beer, for although it's a brown ale without the extreme alcohol content (6.5 percent ABV) of many "winter warmers," it has much more flavor than the typical brown ales I run into.